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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 28, 2017

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Analysis

As Netanyahu showers love on settlers, feeling is far from mutual

Angry over outpost demolitions, settlers heckle PM and put little stock in his promise not to uproot homes… and that’s just the people who didn’t boycott the jubilee

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at an event celebrating celebrating 50 years of Israeli settlement in the West Bank and Golan Heights on September 27, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Marking 50 years of settlements, PM vows they will never be uprooted

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

150 companies said to get letters from UN threatening to add them to blacklist

‘PM to settler leaders: US told Israel not to be a pig on settlement building’

By Jacob Magid and Alexander Fulbright

2 IS-backing Arab Israelis charged with plotting another Temple Mount shooting

By Judah Ari Gross

A third resident of Umm al-Fahm is also suspected of supporting the Islamic State terrorist organization, Shin Bet says

Sa'id Jassoub Mahmoud Jabarin, an Arab Israeli man suspected of supporting Islamic State and planning a terror attack on the Temple Mount, who was indicted on September 28, 2017. (Shin Bet)

Palestinian terrorist in 2015 Ra’anana stabbing jailed for 21 years

Illegal Palestinian worker arrested for allegedly planning stabbing attack

After Har Adar attack, IDF cracks down on terrorist’s hometown

By Judah Ari Gross

Members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamist terror group Hamas, attend a memorial in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on January 31, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas says it won’t even discuss giving up weapons if PA takes over Gaza

Quartet welcomes PA’s return to Gaza as part of reconciliation with Hamas

By ToI Staff and AFP

Army believes Hamas focusing tunnels more on defense than attack

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF: Iran supplying Hezbollah with ever more accurate missiles

By Judah Ari Gross

Analysis

Interpol handcuffs PM’s hope of ending automatic anti-Israel majority

More than anything else, global police organization’s vote to accept Palestine as a member state signals to Israel that the two-state solution is still on the table

A Palestinian delegate receives the Interpol flag from the president of the International Criminal Police Organization Meng Hongwei, second right, during the Interpol General Assembly, in Beijing, China, September 27, 2017. (Interpol via AP)

Rivlin: Interpol hurting itself by admitting Palestinians

By AFP and ToI Staff

US, others won’t honor Palestinian Interpol notices, top lawmaker says

By AP and ToI Staff

Netanyahu to US envoy: PA actions harming chances for peace

Clip from the movie 'It,' thought to have helped inspire copycat clowns in the northern Israeli town of Afula, September 2017. (YouTube screenshot)

No joke

Clowns on dark streets spook residents of northern Israeli town

Police say dressing up as jesters not criminal, as parents freak out over video circulating on social media

Trotsky portrayed as a butcher in the upcoming Russian television series bearing his name. (Courtesy)

Russian Jews'Everyone knows Lenin, but everyone forgot Trotsky'

Russian TV series claims Jewish Trotsky masterminded bloody 1917 revolution

Leaving historians unsure whether show is anti-Semitic or simply sensationalist, upcoming drama accuses Marxist thinker of murdering tsar’s family

A general view of the Supreme Court during a ceremony for outgoing Deputy Supreme Court President Elyakim Rubinstein on June 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

‘Unprecedented’ petition forces Israel’s top court to rule on its own conduct

How an effort to force justices to attend an event celebrating West Bank settlement threatens to deepen the rift between Israel’s brawling branches of government

The site of the upcoming jubilee ceremony celebrating 50 years of settlement in the West Bank and Golan Heights, on September 26, 2017, in the Etzion settlement bloc. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

High Court rejects petition on chief justice’s boycott of pro-settlement event

By Stuart Winer and Raoul Wootliff

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, September 3, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem)

Justice minister scolds Supreme Court chief over pro-settlement ceremony boycott

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Sam Nunberg, a former aide to Donald Trump from 2011 to 2015, speaks to Newsmax TV on April 6, 2017 (screen capture)

Interview'I consider Trump a friend, but it's a strange relationship'

Jewish aide who helped launch Trump’s campaign sees him dropping early positions

By Eric Cortellessa

Thrice fired but still loyal, Sam Nunberg says Trump is surrounding himself with people who don’t represent his ‘America First, Israel next’ base

Leading Senate Democrat urges Trump not to scotch Iran deal

Schumer calls for US to back an independent Kurdish state

By JTA

Jared Kushner voted as a woman – report

Disabled activists block Ibn Gvirol street in Tel Aviv as part of a protest calling for an increase in government stipends, August 31, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Disabled rights activists, Treasury officials meet over increasing stipends

Talks follow weeks of traffic-blocking protests, developing agreement may see stipends for many disabled raised to 80% of minimum wage

6:30 pm

Julia Louis-Dreyfus announces she has breast cancer
5:49 pm

IED explodes in northern West Bank, none hurt
5:38 pm

Erekat blasts US envoy's 'false and misleading' comments on settlements

Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, located at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in New York. (Courtesy, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah/JTA)

From our partner

First-ever survey of Modern Orthodox American Jews reveals fragmented community

By Hannah Dreyfus

New York Jewish News: In Nishma Research survey of 4,000 Modern Orthodox Jews, 97% rank cost of Jewish schooling the community’s most serious challenge

The food’s kosher at Pasta Basta, despite latest fine from chief rabbinate

By Jessica Steinberg

We need to listen to Diaspora, Rivlin says, in subtle jab at Netanyahu

After the floodJews and Palestinians work side-by-side to rebuild home hit by Hurricane Harvey

By Cathryn J. Prince

A statue depicting Supreme Court Justice Miriam Naor, placed illegally near the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on August 31, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media review

No justice, no peace

By Joshua Davidovich

An event marking 50 years of settlements is overshadowed by the Supreme Court’s decision to not send a judge, with the bench seen as both villain and hero

State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan speaks at an Israel Bar Association conference in Tel Aviv on August 29, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

State prosecutor denies foot-dragging in Netanyahu probes

By Alexander Fulbright

Books, covers, crayons, and judgment

The outer cover does not reflect the inner being, not even when it comes to yourself

Is God jealous or compassionate?

By changing His mind and forgiving, God proves that He puts compassion over anger

Hurricanes, earthquakes and Yom Kippur

Lessons learned in the trenches of disaster relief include the need to train locals to help themselves

Pro-Palestinian doesn’t mean anti-Jew

‘I will not be asked to choose between Judaism and justice’

More Headlines

An altercation between security guards and the family of a patient is seen outside the Ichilov Hospital ER, June 27, 2017 (Security camera footage/Courtesy Ichilov Hospital)

Tel Aviv hospital guards attacked, beaten by patient’s family

By Itamar Sharon

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews are seen in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights on June 16, 2013. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

ADL offers reward for tips on NY assault of legally blind Jewish woman

Luai Abed (right) stands in front of a portrait photograph of himself at an exhibition of works by photo journalist Tali Mayer, who, herself, was wounded by a black sponge bullet in 2014 while covering a demonstration. (Ido Grumer)

Setting precedent, East Jerusalem man shot by police recognized as terror victim

An aerial view of the Ashdod Onshore Terminal, which receives the gas and condensate flow from Tamar. The existing site was adapted to receive offshore natural gas from Tamar. (Courtesy Noble Energy)

Supreme Court approves $12.7 billion class action suit against gas industry

In this March 16, 2016, file photo, American student Otto Warmbier is escorted at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea. Warmbier, whose parents say has been in a coma while serving a 15-year prison term in North Korea, was released and returned to the United States Tuesday, June 13, 2017, as the Trump administration revealed a rare exchange with the reclusive country. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin, File)

Student held by N. Korea not tortured, cause of death still unknown — coroner

By AP and AFP

Israeli startup Pruvo seeks to make hotel booking even cheaper by tracking prices (Courtesy)

Israeli startup seeks to slash hotel rates by tracking price drops

Earth (Public domain, US government, Wikipedia)

Japanese researchers believe life on Earth nearly 4 billion years old

By AFP

Yonatan Shiray in 'Foxtrot' (YouTube / Official Trailer / screenshot)

Sticking to his gunsActor who plays key soldier’s role in ‘Foxtrot’ now serves in IDF Givati Brigade

By Jessica Steinberg

Rescuers work on the recovery of victims from the Alvaro Oregon 286 building collapsed during the 7.1-magnitude earthquake, in Mexico City on September 27, 2017. (AFP / Guillermo Arias)

IDF team heads home as Mexico quake rescue mission ends

By Stuart Winer and AP

Illustrative: In this Saturday, March 29, 2014 file photo, a woman drives a car in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as part of a campaign to defy Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving. (AP/Hasan Jamali)

Saudi women still can’t fly, marry, or leave jail without male consent

Rabbi Eliezer Berland (c) at the Jerusalem District Court in Jerusalem on August 1, 2016.(Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Convicted sex offender rabbi sued for NIS 4 million in civil case

Meat & Livestock Australia's latest 'You Never Lamb Alone' advertising clip, which offended Hindus and was falsely reported to have been slammed by the Anti-Defamation League, September 28, 2017. (YouTube Screenshot)

Holy MosesAustralian lamb ad prompts false claim of ADL-led YouTube ban

By JTA

Australian men and women reenacting the last cavalry charge that took place in the Battle of Beersheba during World War I. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Australia, New Zealand PMs to visit Israel for Beersheba battle anniversary

By Alexander Fulbright

Malcolm Turnbull, Bill English to attend ceremony in late October marking 100 years since victory that paved way for British Empire to take Palestine

Shimon Peres during an interview in the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, April 10, 2013. (Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images/JTA)

IDF headquarters building named for Shimon Peres

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